Re: Shootout (sum-file)

On May 6, 4:51 am, Richard Heathfield <r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Razii said:
>
> > On Tue, 06 May 2008 11:17:43 +0000, Richard Heathfield
> > <r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >>me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> gcc --version
> >>2.95.3
> >>me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> g++ --version
> >>2.95.3
> >>me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> java -version
> >>java version "1.1.8"
>
> > 1.1.8? That's probably 10 years old and does not include HotSpot JIT
> > compiler. It's probably 100% interpreted.
>
> <shrug> Right, but so what? It's still Java, right? And please note that
> the gcc and g++ versions are equally old.




>  The point is that this "shoot-out" thing isn't a race between
>  languages (as it claims), but between *implementations* -
>  which makes the whole thing a wild goose chase.


From the top of the home page:

"Benchmarking programming languages?

How can we benchmark a programming language?
We can't - we benchmark programming language implementations.

How can we benchmark language implementations?
We can't - we measure particular programs."


http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/